These are quotes from the books about the Dragonriders of Pern by Anne
McCaffrey.
I collected these quotes while taking notes for the Pern Encyclopedia.
The page book/references are to the copies Elrhan owns.
(See Elrhan's Library for the exact editions referred
to)

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"Dragonmen
were forever men apart once First Impression had been made. And to ride a fighting dragon,
blue, green, brown or bronze, was worth the risks, the unending alertness, the isolation
from the rest of mankind."

Dragonflight,
chapter 1, section 3, page 24

"Look around
you Lessa of Pern, look around the Weyr with unveiled eyes. Old and hallowed is the Weyr?
Yes, but shabby and worn  and disregarded. Yes, you were elated to sit in the
Weyrwomans great chair at the Council Table, but the padding is thin and the fabric
dusty. Humbled to think your hands rest where Moretas and Torenes had rested?
Well, the stone is ingrained with dirt and needs a good scrubbing. And your rump may rest
where theirs did  but thats not where you have your brains."

Lessas
thoughts, in Dragonflight, chapter 2, section 1, page 99

"Rguls
current course of inaction as Weyrleader was based on the idea that if no one, Lord or
holder, saw a dragonrider, no one could be offended."

Dragonflight,
chapter 2, section 1, page 88

" we of
the Lower Caverns have learned to disregard the ties of blood and affection."

"Do you know
how dangerous it was to be a teacher on old Earth?"
"Nonsense, our civilization ( ) revered professors and instructors on
every level."
"Only after they were allowed class-room discipline "
"And the use of stunners."

"Time, time,
time", railed Lessa, "Its always the wrong time. When is now the
time?"

Lessa
to F'nor, in Dragonflight, chapter 2, section 2, page 117

"To everything there is a
season, and a time to every purpose under heaven."

Aivas,
quoting from the Bible (Eccl. 3:1), in All the Weyrs of Pern, page 428

"True
portraits are never realistic."

Master
Domaize, in Red Star Rising/Dragonseye, chapter 5, page 136

"Were not
ballads constructed to inform? To teach those who could not read and write? So that the
young Pernese, whether he be dragonman, Lord, or holder, might learn his duty toward Pern
and rehearse Perns bright history?"